October 25, 2007
What began as a meeting of cultures and teaching styles grew into a connection of minds and hearts this summer when Seattle-area educators met, studied with and befriended counterparts from the country of Jordan, and then visited Jordan themselves.
The UW School of Drama presents the Seattle premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street, which previews on Oct.
When students come to the UW, many have general ideas about what to study and how to prepare for future careers, but they are often unaware of which University major, program or classes will best help them reach their educational and career goals.
English clarinetist Gareth Davis will perform at 7:30 p.
Increased annual coverage limits, the removal of lifetime benefit caps and some different plans are among changes coming in UW employees’ medical and dental insurance for 2008.
The UW has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
How time flies and things grow.
Dan Luchtel would like the Faculty Senate to be seen as a body that “adds value to our shared governance.
The Burke Museum helps Seattle’s urban students get out of the classroom and into nature with its Magnuson Outdoor Learning Laboratory, and now the program has been honored by the Environmental Education Association of Washington with the association’s 2007 Community Catalyst Award.
Name: Susan Lowney
UW Job: Buyer II, in the Purchasing Department.
SIMPLY BRILLIANT: Popular Science magazine chose Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, for a spot on this year’s “Brilliant 10” list.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW faculty violist Melia Watras will perform at 7:30 p.
Despite decades of ever more-exacting science projecting Earth’s warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur.
Five UW faculty members have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Hogness Symposium: Faye Wattleton Oct.
Jack Berryman, UW professor of medical history and adjunct professor of orthopaedics and sports medicine, is an avid sportsman, historian and scholar.
If you are determined to get a tattoo, Dr.
Derek Jackson, a fourth-year UW medical student, has been named a 2007 Pisacano Scholar by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation, Inc.
The UW Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, has received a $3.
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded University of Washington researchers $10.
Michelle Williams, UW professor of epidemiology, has won the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Abraham Lilienfeld Award that recognizes excellence in teaching of epidemiology during the course of her career.
October 24, 2007
Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of the Missouri River as speaking a similar-sounding type of English.
The University of Washington has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued today by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
October 23, 2007
The annual statewide hunt for Washington’s most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the University of Washington.
October 18, 2007
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
The UW Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
Mary Levin The UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by UW staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, or 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 3. Pre-registration is required; click here for more information or call 206-685-8033.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
Within years of its inception, UW faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
When Steve Malone retired earlier this month, he could take satisfaction in the great strides that have been made in forecasting volcanic eruptions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
Even as KUOW, the UW’s National Public Radio affiliate, asks for green from its listeners in its pledge drives, the station’s staff and volunteers are going green by recycling and composting, especially in — you guessed it — the green room.
Wanted: UW videos and other multimedia materials of interest to people aged 18 to 35.
Suppose you went through a series of engaging events with two people from another country.
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how UW engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.